Digg: New ad provider — Hey everyone - I wanted to give you a heads-up before the official announcement is made later today. We've signed on Microsoft as our new partner to sell and serve the ads on Digg. It's a deal similar to the one Facebook signed with Microsoft last year.

Microsoft Now Selling Digg's Ads — Kevin Rose writes a somewhat cryptic blog post announcing that Digg has done an ad deal with Microsoft. He says it's a deal similar to the one Facebook signed with Microsoft last year. That probably means that, as with Facebook, Digg is getting a guarantee …

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results — Record June Quarter Revenue and Profit — Mac Sales Set New Record — CUPERTINO, Calif., July 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended June 30, 2007.

Generator Failures Caused 365 Main Outage — Several generators at 365 Main's San Francisco data center failed to start when the facility lost grid power Tuesday afternoon, causing an outage that knocked many of the web's most popular destinations offline for several hours.

Phone mast allergy 'in the mind' — Mobile phone masts are not responsible for the symptoms of ill health some blame them for, a major UK study says. — Dozens of people who believed the masts trigger symptoms such as anxiety, nausea and tiredness were unable to detect if signals were on of off.

Google sued over North Carolina tax exemptions — It's pretty common for large companies to get tax breaks and other incentives to expand their operations in U.S. cities and states. Apparently, things aren't going so well for Google in North Carolina though.

iPhone v. BlackBerry: Side By Side, Two Week Comparison — With the Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerry 8820 coming soon to an AT&T store near you, business folks around the country will be faced with the decision of switching to the trendy new iPhone or upgrading to a more iPhonesque version of their trusty CrackBerry.

Yahoo YSlow Shows Site Slowness — A Firefox add-on called YSlow from Yahoo works with the Firebug plugin to show webmasters the causes of problems with their website's performance. — By using the YSlow for Firebug addition to the Firefox browser, webmasters can review several views of their website.

Xbox spec: $50 cut in Aug. — Timed to release of major titles — In an effort to regain momentum in the video game console market, Microsoft Corp. will cut the price of the Xbox 360 by $50 early next month, sources said. — The reduction will be made Aug. 8, according to one source …

1 million Joost users prepare for year-end launch — Joost, the peer-to-peer TV sharing application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has signed up more than a million beta testers and is on track for an end-of-year launch, its co-creator has revealed.

Om Malik Is Ready for His Close-Up — What is Om Malik going to announce at his party tomorrow night at the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco? — Valleywag wanted to know what the well-known tech blogger was up to, so we will tell them: an online television interview and analysis show on Revision3 called "The GigaOm Show."